The (Human) Architect
These days, who needs an architect? Really. With the Agile movement, the importance of an experienced software architect in a software development team has continuously declined. Or so it seems. Software Developers are big boys (and girls sometimes!) that do not need to be told what to do, how to do it, etc., right? Plus these architects tend to cost a lot… and they are difficult to find… so why bother? Why not reassign the tasks that a good architect normally performs to other members of the software development team and forget about it? Unless the architect has some key role to play that we are unaware of…